Arizona's Secretary of State wants a momument to the region's Confederate troops removed from a public plaza near the state Capitol in Phoenix.
In a letter to the State Department of Administration, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs called for the monument to be taken from public display and placed into long-term storage indefinitely.
The monument, near the state Capitol in Phoenix, was a gift from the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the early 1960's. An inscription says, "A nation that forgets its past has no future."
Hobbs says the gift was a clear attempt to ignore the progress of the Civil Rights Movement and should be taken away.
